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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever.


Benjamin Disraeli

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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
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But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Exce...
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PALITHA ARIYARATHNA The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
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H. L. MENCKEN To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for idea...
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PROVERB An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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MIKE PENCE Love for humanity & not religion should be the constitution guiding every nation,because if we choos...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adventures are to the adventurous.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI